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The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale — 602 episodes · page 1 of 7
Is Canada's Democracy Underfunded?
Nigel Newton on Gold-Digging, Fast Cars, Friendship, and Finding Harry Potter
Timothy Heyman on B. Traven and how to manage a literary archive
David McKnight on Collecting The Beatles
Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey
Andres M. Zervigon on Illustrated Magazines
Tony Fekete on Collecting Erotica
Siegfried Lukatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series
Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing
Book scholar Jonathan Rose on who used to read Playboy magazine and Why
Michael Lista on writing true crime, and getting optioned
Ian Birch on great magazine covers
Paul Wells on Writing Politics for Newspapers, Magazines, Books & Substack
Christopher Long on the Genius Graphics of Lucian Bernhard
Nick Anthony on AI, and writing his first Novel
John Sargent on beating Amazon & Google, and saving Books
Joshua Doležal on being a Book Coach
Andrew Nash on the value of Publishers' Archives
Marta Sylvestrova on Czech Film Poster Design
Nic Bottomley on his Reading Spas and the future of Bookselling
Nana Lohrengel on booksellers school in Milan
Ricky Cavallero on Book Publishing as Partying
Matteo Columbo on Falling in Love with Margaret Atwood
Dan Fridd on the latest in Bookselling Technology
Maria Hamrefors: Sweden's James Daunt
Barbara Hoepli on how they love Bookstores in Italy
Jeff Deutsch on a new kind of bookstore and the paradox of the browse
Book Designer Jerry Kelly on what to do once you've written your Manuscript
Justin Pemberton on how to adapt an 800-page best-seller into a documentary film
Scott Ferris on Artist and Book Illustrator Rockwell Kent
Sasha Tochilovsky on one of the greatest partnerships in magazine history
Michael Geist on the pathetic argument for extending copyright in Canada
Richard Charkin on how you too can set up a successful publishing business
Michael Torosian (Part ll) on How to Interview an Artist for a Book
Michael Torosian on Photography & making Fine Press Photography Books
John Metcalf on a lifetime of editing and publishing short stories
Anton Bogomazov on Mark LaFramboise and the role of the Bookstore Book Buyer
Tom Devlin on the rise of Drawn and Quarterly, and Graphic Novels
Shannon DeVito on her role as 'Director of Books' at B & N
Dan Paisner on being the voice of Ivanka, Serena, Whoopi, Denzel and Steve Aoki
Valerie Picard on winning Best Children's Publisher at Bologna
Martha Fleming on Canada's greatest graphic designer
Nora Krug on vigilantly illustrating Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny
Jiri Nenicka on Samizdat and Resisting Totalitarian Censorship
Naomi Bacon on Marketing Books on Social Media
Michael Zantovsky on Vaclav Havel and writing the biography of a close friend
John Owen on the best bookshop I've ever been in, in my life
Elisabeth Ruge, Germany's leading literary agent
Jonathan Landgrebe on Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany's Faber & Faber
Pamela Paul on her role as books editor at The New York Times
James Marsh on making love and encyclopedias
Nick Anthony on why he's workshopping his controversial first novel
Alexandra Pringle on arm-hair and other secrets to great editing
Marius Kociejowski reflects on the Soul of the Book Trade
Richard Katrovas on Creative Writing Programs and Publishing First Books
Mark Andrews on Collecting Books about the Science and Engineering of Water
Mark Samuels Lasner on book collecting, after the dopamine
Kat McKenna on how Tik Tok's BookTok sells books
Stephen Enniss on special collections libraries and value
Sarah Miniaci on how to publicize a book in 2022
Stuart Kells reveals the truth about Allen Lane and Penguin Books
Laura J. Miller updates us on Reluctant Capitalists her book on bookselling
Jonathan Kay on how to be a Ghostwriter
Kathryn Schulz on Death and Love, Memoirs and Essays, and
Larry Grobel on how he writes his short stories
James Wood on his role as a book critic
William Taylor on how to sell your books through an auction house
Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on how he writes novels
Brendan Sherar on Biblio.com's Used Book Marketplace and first ever Virtual Book Fair
Glenn Horowitz on being a "notorious" bookseller & archives dealer
John Sargent on his career in book publishing
Jerry Kelly on book and bookseller catalogue design
Andrew Wylie on being a Literary Agent
Richard Charkin on the measures required to succeed in publishing
Warren Kinsella on Political Books
Steven Heller on the great book designer Alvin Lustig
Terry O'Reilly on how to market a book
Margaret Atwood on the non-role of writers
Hermione Lee on life writing, biography and biographers
John Burnside on Poetry, Attention and Truth
Jaleen Grove on Avant Garde Illustration 1900-1950
Steven Heller on graphic designer Paul Rand
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Role of the Critic
Michael Cader with evergreen advice for Book Publishers
Bill Matthews on his life in books, mostly on the West Coast
Don Stewart on MacLeod's, his iconic Vancouver bookshop
Falk Eisermann on finding and cataloguing all of the Incunabula in the World
Dan Morgan on Czech Modernist Book Design
Emma Sarconi on judging the excellence of Library Exhibition Catalogues
Publisher Jordi Nadal on reading, writing, publishing & living
Paul Delaney on writing the life of book designer Charles Ricketts
Extraordinary Canadians: Andrew Coyne on his father James Elliott Coyne
Andrew Steeves on designing books at Gaspereau Press
Michele K. Troy on The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Steve Lomazow: the world's greatest collector of American magazines
Heather O'Neill picks Agota Kristof's The Notebook
Aimee Peake on Selling Antiquarian Books on the Prairies
Ken Whyte and Jack David on the lessons of Canadian Book Publishing
Stephen Enniss on the Relationship between Collectors and Rare Book Libraries
Meghan Constantinou with the goods on private library catalogues